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My Year In Photos

My photos from the past year.

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Christmas 2010

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Monster Jam

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At the MAX Bowling Event

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At the radio station

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Calendar photo

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Went to visit my mom for a week down by Bloomington, and dug up some old photos.


Summer fun!

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Indy Screampark

All of these can be found on my Flickr album!

Pintrest!

I’ve been hearing people raving about this pintrest stuff, and decided to check it out. If you don’t know what it is, it’s fairly simple. You sign up and start “pinning” images and videos of interest and share them with others. You can “like”, comment, and follow other members too. I found myself browsing on there for quite some time last night so I figured I would start one.

http://pinterest.com/loveashleynet/

If you have one, post a link and I’ll check it out.

Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2011

Almost here!

I just can’t help it, I love VS and their fashion show.

 

Can’t wait for this! I love the VS brand, although not everyone does. I can respect their pov but I just have a different opinion obviously. This is one of those times where I have to just propose to agree to to disagree.

Will you be watching the VS fashion show?

Blogs I Love

I follow many great blogs and I think I am going to start linking some of them, just because I want people to check them out. In no particular order, here are just a few of the awesome bloggers that I follow with their awesome blogs. Just because. Check them out!

Adios Barbie

Clarissa’s Blog

ExtraSmall.me

My Inner Chick

The Bloggess

xoJane

Ditz-Revolution

Reader Question: How To Handle Posts

The other day I received a new comment in my entry called Blog Suppression, a post where I expressed my struggle with how much I should censor my opinions on here and if I should worry about offending people. Their question:

I would like to hear how you have decided to handle your posts. I am considering starting a blog and I think I have a lot of entertaining topic/obervations/things to touch upon, but I also don’t want to cast a dark light on anyone I know or care about. I don’t even want to cast a dark light on people I don’t know or don’t care about. My observations would never be mean spirited, but more comic. I realize when someone else is the center of humorous observation they have a hard time wrapping around the poster’s humor. Not sure what to do myself.

That is a very good question to ask. Here are some thoughts. If you truly feel that your observations wouldn’t intend on being mean spirited then I say you don’t have anything to worry about, really. Don’t censor your yourself. Yesterday while I was typing my Express Yourself post, I was looking at the wiki page and I came across another quote by Madonna that I find fit for not only her song but this kind of situation as well.

The time I learn how not to edit myself will be the time I consider myself a complete adult. – Madonna

To put it simply, post about whatever you want. If your intentions aren’t to be mean, that should show through. If you are worried about coming off like a jerk, you might want to reread or have a friend read your posts to see how it comes across to an audience member. But also know that you can’t always please everyone. There will likely usually be someone who will find fault in something you write, and that just comes with the territory of being a writer/blogger. Maybe you could make a disclaimer or note somewhere in the About section that your blog is meant to be humorous, so people won’t take everything you say so seriously. With most humor blogs I see, there is usually a description somewhere stating that it is humorous. Take The Bloggess, for example. She makes it pretty obvious that her blog is meant to be funny and most people are on board with that. People can either take it or leave it and if someone hates what you say anyway, they don’t have to visit. It may take some time for you to develop the right kind of message you want to get across and that is ok. You’ll get it. Tell your friends and family about your blog and explain to them what kind of blog it is. They might not agree with every little thing you say in it, but that’s just natural. It’s ok to be a little candid sometimes. Everyone is that way from time to time. You might also be surprised at how many people will support you with it and become a fan of your writing. I hope this helps, good luck!

10 Facts About Me

I got this post idea from Helga, and I asked her if I could steal it. I will try to make these not so obvious or boring.

1. I was born with a clubbed foot. When my mom was pregnant with me, she fell and my foot became twisted and stuck behind her rib and it grew there. When I was born, my foot was twisted backwards and I had to have corrective surgery asap. I wore braces and casts for the first 2 years of my life. Now it’s fine and it doesn’t affect how I do anything, but my left foot is a size 5 and my right foot is a size 6.

2. Me and my boyfriend have 5 snakes. Two pastel ball pythons, one spider ball python, one normal ball python, and one grey banded king. One of the pastels is the snake in my calendar photo. We keep all of them inside plastic tubs on a rack in our bedroom.

3. I am distantly related to Edgar Allan Poe and James Whitcomb Riley. My mom is a great writer and so was my grandma. I believe I inherited the writing gene.

4. I have a birthmark on the back of my neck that is just a dark brown area that looks like dirt. It’s kinda big but not many people ever see it since my hair covers it most of the time.

5. My last name is French Canadian.

6. I used to be in gymnastics when I was 9 and 10. I wish I would have continued with it.

7. I can’t go a day without drinking Pepsi or having something chocolate. Well I can, but I don’t want to.

8. Celebrity gossip is a guilty pleasure. So it watching America’s Next Top Model and Dr. Phil.

9. I want to have a tiger as a pet one day, like Princess Jasmine.

10. I have become quite addicted to dubstep in the past year.

Purr, Fragrance by Katy Perry

Is it just me or are celeb fragrances starting to become difficult to take seriously?

First of all, wtf? Secondly, lol @ whatever she has on.

And “Earn my affection???” Oh dear Katy, you try too hard!